Bandeau.



W. L. MANGHESTER.

BANDEAU. Arrucmol rmx lun. 22. 1909.

932,304. Patented 411524, 1909f NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICEi WILL L. MANCHESTER, 0F CLINTON, IOWA.

BANDEAU.

To all whom t may concern:

Re it known that I, IVILL L. MANCHESTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Clinton and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bandeaux, of which the following is a speci ation This invention relates to what is known in the millinery trade as bandeaux to hold hats off the hair. in the ordinary construction of bandeaux strip of buckram is used of a suitable length and provided with suitable edge stiifenings, such as covered wire, attached by unreliable stitch means that is apt to unravel if broken or cut and as a consequence the edge stiffening or wire becomes loose and the bandeau is rendered impracticable.

The object of the present invention is to construct a bandeau strip of such length as to be capable of separation to form a number of bandeaux and so secure the edge stiffening means or wire that the said wire will not become detached or loose when the strip is separated into desirable lengths.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts which will be fully hereinafter specified.

in the drawing: Figure l is a perspective View of a portion of a bandeau embodying the 'features of the invention and showing the securing means for the edge wires or stitfening devices enlarged. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the strip as shown by Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the manner of forming a bandeau strip and embodying a number of bandeaux which are separated into lengths as desired from the roll.

The bandeau embodying the features of the invention consists of a body 5 of buckram or analogous material and applied along the edges thereof on one side of the strip are suitably covered stiffening means or wires G. The stiffening means or wires 6 are held in applied position by a thread or cord 7 which is regularly formed into lock stitches S surrounding each stiffening means or wire and looped through and caught as at 9 a distance inwardly from the free edge of the body or strip 5. It will be seen that the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application lfiled March 22, 1909.

Serial N0. 485,074.

opposite side edge portions of the body or strip 5 do not surround or extend over the st-ifiening means or wires 6, it being sufficient for all practical purposes to hold the said stiffening means by the lock stitches 8 against one side of the body or strip 5. Any suitable mechanism will be used for forming the thread or cord 7 into lock stitches around the stiening means or wires 6 and through the body or strip 5, and by the use of the particular strip specified, raveling of the thread or cord will not ensue when the body or strip 5 and the stiifening means or wires 6 are separated, cut or broken, the locked condition of the several stitches preventing the latter from unraveling. This effective means of securing the stiffening wires 6 to the body or strip 5 permits said body and stiifening wires to be connected or secured to each other in extended lengths, eight or ten feet long, for instance, and rolled, as shown by Fig. 3, for convenience in shipment and the user can cut olf pieces from the continuous strip thus produced to form bandeaux of desirable lengths without danger of the stitfening wires becoming separated from the body 5.

The improved construction will be found very advantageous in the art to which it pertains and from a standpoint of manufacture it isvery convenient.

vWhat is claimed is:

l. As an improved article of manufacture, a bandeau consisting of. a stiffened fabric body having auxiliary pliable stiffening means applied on one side thereof close to opposite side edges and secured by lock stitches surrounding the same and looped through the opposite side portions of the body at a distance inwardly from the said side edges of the latter so that the bandeau may be cut in lengths at different points without releasing the stitches on the cut portions, the stitches directly engaging the stili"- ening means without requiring rolling of the edges or doubling of the body with relation to the stifiening means.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a bandeau strip consisting of a fabric body having a single thickness and stiiened, the body having pliable stiftening wires applied Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

to one side solely adjacent to opposite side edges, and lock stitches passed through the body at a distance from the side edges of the latter and outwardly over the edges of the body and directly in contact with the Wires whereby the strip may be cut into lengths Without releasing the stitches from the Wires on the separated parts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 1n presence of two subscribing wit- 19 nesses.

WILL L. MANCHESTER.

Witnesses IDA MCGONEGLE, INEZ BUCHANAN. 

